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		ok123456 51 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The seven second kernel compile I remember starting a 1.2 kernel compile on my 486 with 4 MB of RAM, going to bed, then going to school, and finding that it had finished when I came back home.

guerrilla 42 days ago [–]

I'm guessing your hard disk was also an enormous bottleneck back then too.

ok123456 42 days ago | [–]

Everything was a bottleneck back then.

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